GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed widespread smoke from biomass burning across parts of Brazil (south of the Amazon River) on 09 August 2020. Most of this smoke was created by extensive burning during the previous day and evening — but later in the... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed clusters of thunderstorms that developed along and just behind a cold front moving eastward across Minnesota on 08 August 2020. The northernmost hail-producing thunderstorm in Minnesota exhibited an Above-Anvil Cirrus Plume (reference | VISIT training); in addition, a decaying thunderstorm complex in southeastern... Read More
A previous blog post (link) detailed how to access NOAA CLASS to create Gridded NUCAPS (NOAA-Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System) imagery from those data. (You can also view some gridded NUCAPS fields here; click here to see the 850-mb field of Temperature from that site, it is very similar to... Read More
A sequence of 3 VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 as visualized using RealEarth (above) showed plumes of blowing dust moving off the coast of Namibia and South Africa on 07 August 2020.EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 Visible (0.6 µm) images (below) displayed the motion of the dust... Read More
